Breast Cancer: Reduce Your Risk With Foods You Love - Softcover

Pendergrast, Robert, M.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984476903 ISBN 13: 9780984476909

Publisher: Penstokes Pr, 2010

Synopsis

Breast Cancer: Reduce Your Risk with Foods You Love is the definitive guide for women wishing to reduce risk of breast cancer through food choices and lifestyle.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Pendergrast, MD is a graduate of Furman University, the Medical College of Georgia and the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, certified by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and a graduate of the Fellowship at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Pendergrast was voted Educator of the Year by students and continues his passion for education as a faculty member at the Medical College of Georgia. Since completing a Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine, he has 20 plus years in teaching its unique perspective to medical students and physicians-in-training. Additionally, he has a consulting private practice for all ages where he combines his love of nutritional medicine, clinical hypnotherapy and herbal medicine. He is a sought after speaker at medical education meetings for professionals and women s groups. With his wife Gail, he teaches workshops, providing empowerment for individuals to take charge of their own health.

From the Inside Flap

Breast Cancer Prevention for Women of all Ages, with the Unique Perspective of a Pediatrician Specializing in Adolescent Health. This year, close to 190,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States alone. Would you like to learn how to take yourself out of the group most likely to get that news? You can with choices that are easily within your grasp. Start today! Written by a pediatrician with a passion for prevention, all women, even teens, will find Breast Cancer: Reduce Your Risk with Foods You Love is clearly written and straight to the point.The guidelines recommended will have the greatest impact when started in the preteen years, but it is never too late to reduce your risk. One section is devoted to healthy eating strategies for women who are in treatment or breast cancer survivors.In this simple to follow and easy to read guide, Robert Pendergrast, MD will show you: Specific actions that are known to reduce risk, An overall diet plan, Specific foods which are powerhouses of prevention, A guide to avoiding toxins in foods and the environment, and An integrative approach to health and wellness. "If all women were to follow this guide to optimum breast health, it would mark a turning point in the war on breast cancer, from treatment to primary prevention. I will recommend this book to patients, colleagues, and friends." Andrew Weil, M.D.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penstokes Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984476903
• ISBN 13: 9780984476909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 183